Serious, straightforward cinematic terror is hard to come by these days, but this literate shocker is the scariest film since THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and joins BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA as one of the best supernatural movies in years.
A Chicago-based doctoral student named Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen), is working on a paper about urban legends. One of the myths she's focusing on concerns a spirit called "Candyman," who supposedly appears before anyone who says his name five times into a mirror--then slaughters them with a hook.
When Helen learns that a murder in the nearby Cabrini Green housing projects has been attributed by the residents to Candyman, she investi...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
101 mins